As health officials work to contain the continuing outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lessons from that crisis can be applied to more equitably battle Lassa fever, another deadly ...

An Iowa resident has died after contracting a suspected case of Lassa fever, health officials said. The patient was diagnosed Tuesday after returning to the United States from West Africa earlier this ...

An unidentified New Jersey man died after returning home from West Africa, where he had contracted Lassa fever, a virus that has symptoms similar to those of Ebola. Federal health officials are ...

Lassa fever is a priority pathogen in urgent need of research and development because it poses a significant public health ...

Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is treating a physician assistant suspected of having caught Lassa fever in West Africa. The physician assistant, an American medical worker, was working in Togo ...

A patient has died after a third case of Lassa fever was confirmed in the UK, the Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. What will the next global pandemic look like? Next major pandemic will hit ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The CDC and the New Jersey Department of Health have confirmed a death from Lassa fever that was diagnosed earlier Monday in a person returning to the United States from Liberia.

News from the Minnesota Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: A Minnesota traveler returning from Africa has been hospitalized with what the CDC confirms to ...

In an historic moment for regional solidarity and leadership, West African Ministers of Health pledge their joint commitment to advance the development of, and readiness for, much-needed vaccines ...

A German undertaker has the distinction of becoming the first person to contract and become ill with Lassa fever outside of Africa, according to early reports. ProMed, a critically important site for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Currently, all eyes are on the worrisome Ebola virus disease outbreak going on in the northeast of the ...